Quote/s of the Day – 6 November – On Achieving Sanctity!
“We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ‘I will be a saint’ – means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies and make myself a willing slave to the will of God.”
St Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
“God’s invitation to become saints is for all, not just a few. Sanctity therefore must be accessible to all. In what does it consist? In a lot of activity? No. In doing extraordinary things? No, this could not be for everybody and at all times. Therefore, sanctity consists in doing good and in doing this good in whatever condition and place God has placed us. Nothing more, nothing outside of this.”
Blessed Louis Tezza (1841-1923)
“If God gives you an abundant harvest of trials, it is a sign of great holiness which He desires you to attain. Do you want to become a great saint? Ask God to send you many sufferings. The flame of Divine Love never rises higher. than when fed with the wood of the Cross, which the infinite charity of the Saviour used to finish His sacrifice. All the pleasures of the world are nothing, compared with the sweetness found in the gall and vinegar offered to Jesus Christ. That is: hard and painful things endured for Jesus Christ and with Jesus Christ!”
St Ignatius Loyola
(via AnaStpaul – Breathing Catholic)
